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Eddie Allen New CD “Push”

Eddie Allen "Push" (Edjalen Music EM 505) Street Date April 7, 2014
Eddie Allen – TRUMPET, Keith Loftis - TENOR SAX, Dion Tucker – TROMBONE, Misha Tsiganov – KEYBOARDS, Mark Soskin – PIANO, Kenny Davis - ACOUSTIC BASS, E.J. Strickland - DRUMS

Track listing, track times and composer:

1. NAKIA ……………………………………8:18

2. SACRED GROUND …………………… 6:28

3. CARESS …………………………………6:31

4. HILLSIDE STRUT ……………………… 6:03

5. WHO CAN I TURN TO? ……………… 7:37

6. WHISPERS IN THE DARK …………… 6:09

7. WITH OPEN ARMS …………………… 4:41

8. EVE DECEIVED …………………………4:55

9. PUSH …………………………………… 5:45

All compositions by Eddie Allen, except "Who Can I Turn To?" by Anthony Newley

The goal of this project was simply to create some good, "fun to listen to" music. One way of doing this is to work with excellent musicians.

Another, for me, is to combine various styles that feels good to play. I had the pleasure of doing both. Hopefully the listener will enjoy what I was hearing in my head."

Trumpeter, composer, arranger, author, educator, ... Eddie Allen is one of the more versatile musicians on the New York scene. He's called upon to play everything from jazz (big band as well as small ensembles) to R & B/pop to latin to symphonic to Broadway and everything in

between. He studied music, theory and arranging at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in Milwaukee and the University of Wisconsin in Green Bay before moving to the east coast. He then attended William Paterson University of New Jersey where he received a Bachelor of

Music degree.

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Since his arrival on the New York scene he's worked with such jazz greats as; Art Blakey, Joe Henderson, Randy Weston, Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Foster, Billy Harper, Henry Threadgill, Bobby Watson, Jon Faddis, Benny Carter, Panama Francis and Steve Turre.

He has recorded and performed with, as well as composed for; Louis Hayes, Lester Bowie, Etta Jones & Houston Person, Mongo Santamaria, Chico Freeman, Charli Persip, Vanessa Rubin and Muhal Richard Abrams.

He currently leads a jazz quartet, a jazz quintet, an Afro-Cuban/Brasilian group called Salongo and a 16-piece big band called the Eddie Allen Aggregation. He continues to work as a free-lance musician, an educator and clinician.

—Derek Taylor, Master of a Small House

Eddie Allen performs and records on SHURE microphones, Phaeton Musical Instruments and uses ZOOM Electronics.

Eddie Allen & PUSH
Saturday, May 3rd
5 - 6:30pm.
Jazz Vespers
St. Albans Congregational Church
172-17 Linden Blvd.
St. Albans NY 11434
718-657-8282

Featuring

Eddie Allen - trumpet
Kenny Davis - acoustic bass
EJ Strickland - drums
Misha Tsiganov - keyboard
Tadataka Unno - piano
Mark Williams - trombone
tba - tenor sax



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